RSP past events

The Repositories Support Project (RSP) ran from November 2006 – 31 July 2013. During that time the RSP ran 50 face-to-face events; 7 residential schools and 43 one-day events. Over 1,506 delegates attended events, from 257 different organizations. The RSP hosted 16 webinars for 1,017 delegates, 270 of which were international. A large proportion of the international delegates were from the USA, Ireland, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal and Mexico. Delegates also attended online webinars from Argentina, South Africa, Canada, Nigeria, Italy, Germany and other locations. The RSP conducted 94 consultancy visits. You can see a list of the past events below, and you can access where available the accompanying PowerPoint presentations, videos, and photo galleries.

Delegate Map

RSP has been active in supporting the development of the national infrastructure. This map shows the insitutions who have had a representative at an RSP event. We are very pleased that it reflects the national spread of HE institutions.
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Three repository administrators, Dr. Miggie Pickton (University of Northampton), Dominic Tate (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Sally Rumsey (Oxford University) will discuss the current role of the institutional repositories, the developments and implications after the Finch report and the necessary actions that each institution needs to take into consideration.

This webinar may be of interest to librarians and repository managers.

*This webinar was cancelled, but will be rescheduled soon. We are terribly sorry for the inconvenience*

Bill Hubbard, Director of the Centre for Research Communications, will present another free RSP webinar.

2012 has been an extraordinary year for Open Access, with the "Academic Spring", the Finch report, RLUK policy, the European Commission announcement, the Royal Society report and just lately the "Willetts' Money" which called on instituions for plans for increasing Open Access - and money to do it - and by next March!

Bill will discuss issues arising from these developments with suggestions as to how institutions can best respond.

Sarah Hall, University of the Arts London and Tahani Nadim, Goldsmiths University of London, will bring together their experience and knowledge gained through the Kultur II project and will present on advocacy for the arts.

This webinar may be of interest to librarians and repository managers.

This workshop will showcase research repositories in UK higher education. It will demonstrate how widespread the network is, how coordinated the UK is as a community, what the Repositories Support Project has done to encourage this, the role of United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories and what JISC has done in terms of a national approach to support and development.

Delegates from outside the UK will have the opportunity to get an in depth understanding of the repository network in the UK and also to talk to repository staff about their experiences.

Niamh Brennan, Trinity College Dublin, will show her experience and expertise in using bibliometrics and visualization tools to produce business intelligence for her institution demonstrating the value of its research outputs.

The webinar may be of interest to librarians, authors and anyone related to scientific research.

This webinar is co-sponsored by the NECOBELAC project (Network of Collaboration Between Europe and Latin American-Caribbean Countries) and the Repositories Support Project (RSP) and it aims to promote and foster repositories development in Europe and Latin America. This webinar will serve as a training course; after the webinar,according to the NECOBELAC strategy, the participants are strongly encouraged to disseminate the information presented both to their peers and the scholarly communication stakeholders in their fields.

This webinar is co-sponsored by the NECOBELAC project (Network of Collaboration Between Europe and Latin American-Caribbean countries) and the Repositories Support Project (RSP) and it aims to promote and foster open access publishing activities in Europe and Latin America. This webinar will serve as a training course; after the webinar, according to the NECOBELAC strategy, the participants are strongly encouraged to disseminate the information presented both to their peers and the scholarly communication stakeholders in their fields.

This free one day event is aimed at those working in research repositories and higher education libraries but may be of interest to a wider audience including researchers. It will showcase examples of innovative approaches which support open access to research outputs and an open approach to scholarship. This includes new publishing initiatives – journals and monographs, new approaches to peer review, data sharing, the role of repositories and the use of social networking tools by academics.